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Issue: Vol. 2366 No. 1: 23 Feb. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-02-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2366.1.2
Page range: 35–45
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 3

A review of the Australian genera of the planthopper family Issidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) with description of an unusual new species of Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St.Petersburg 199034, Russia
Orange Agricultural Institute, Industry & Investment NSW, Forest Road, Orange, 2800 NSW, Australia
Hemiptera Nomenclature Fulgoroidea planthopper key

Abstract

A new species of the planthopper family Issidae, with a feature which appears to mimic small salticid spiders, is described as Chlamydopteryx mammoides sp. nov., from Queensland, Australia. Phaeopteryx Kirkaldy, 1907 is placed in synonymy under Chlamydopteryx Kirkaldy, 1907, creating the new combination Chlamydopteryx sidnicus (Kirkaldy). Tetrica scapularis Jacobi, 1928 is transferred to the genus Orinda Kirkaldy as Orinda scapularis comb. nov. and Orinda bimaculifrons Jacobi, 1928 to the genus Chlamydopteryx as Chlamydopteryx bimaculifrons comb. nov. Some new records for Australian Issidae are given. A key to the described Australian issid genera is given, along with a checklist of described species.

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